Sound in WebView is still playing in the background
Problem: Push a new page with a WebView Play a video on the page (try Youtube) Pop the page Sound is still playing in the background Switch to a different app on the phone Sound is still playing in the...
View ArticleBug? MasterDetailPage set IsPresented while changing tab
I'm using a TabbedPage where a certain action in one tab will cause the app to change its current tab. All tabs are MasterDetailPages. During this change, if an iOS device is in portrait, the Detail...
View ArticleHow to overcome deploy clearing Application.Current.Properties on Android?
During development, I am repeatedly building and deploying to physical devices for testing. On iOS devices, even when I re-build and re-deploy, the values previously stored using...
View ArticleHow to acces the current view UIViewController from an external service
I'm creating a Service in Xamarin.Forms that needs to open a new UI. For Android I'm using: private Context _activity; _activity.StartActivity(_authenticator.GetUI(_activity)); For iOS I need to access...
View ArticleAutosize font label
I have seen a custom approach to autosize the font of a label, but I am missing such a built-in feature. How do you others handle different font size on different systems / resolutions, please?
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ListView scrolling problem on Android M
Hi, Does anyone know about this scrolling issue that I'm having with any Xamarin.Forms ListView in Android M (Nexus 5)? There is something like a white space above and under the ListView, and in the...
View ArticleContainer with rounded corners
I would like to put some Xamarin.Forms controls into a rectangular container with rounded corners. Does anyone know about such a container that I could use?
View ArticleINotify on Disabled entry
Hello I have a disabled Entry and Editor, isn't it possible to change the text via INotify when it's disabled? It works fine when it's enabled entry or editor, but can't get it to work when disabled....
View ArticleXF Listview on Android Marshmallow giving very large blank area before first...
Suddenly my app (in debug or release) on my Nexus 5 running Marshmallow has a massive (about 1 screen length in size) blank space before the first item in the list. This same issue exists if I build...
View ArticleCan you have dynamic cell heights with either the ListView or TableView views?
Can you have dynamic cell heights with either the ListView or TableView views?
View ArticleCustom Renderer doesn't see ViewModel PropertyChanged events outside of...
I seem to be missing a piece to this puzzle... I have a View with a bound ViewModel using a Custom Page Renderer on Android. The only properties the renderer is detecting changes to are Renderer, Width...
View ArticleProblem with Application.Properties
I have an application that make use of Application.Properties to save some data, but some problems ocurred on the app and now, the data on Application.Properties cannot be saved, because, if i install...
View ArticleSupported languages publishing android APK
Hello, I developed an application and now I'm publishing for android Market. I just updated my environment to xamarin forms 2.0 I followed the standard procedure to publish from visual studio, really...
View ArticleUsing Xamarin.Forms.Maps for offline use?
Hello Is it possible to use Xamarin.forms.maps for offline use? and if it is, any documentation on it? Else if I wanna add OsmSharp to Xamarin.forms, how do i make custom renderer, that renders Map...
View ArticleMaps using Xaml
Hello, is there an example on how to use xamarin.forms Maps into XAML? I tried to use the tag Map but is not found. Readng this example it seems specific code is needed for Android:...
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Your experiences with update to Win10 + VS2015…?
Hi all I work with Win 8.1 and VS2013 Update 2 and XF 1.4.4 “stable” and XLabs right now. On the base of various reasons, I have to update to Windows 10 and VS2015 in the near time. As we develop also...
View ArticleCustom Renderer with android XML drwabale and binding
Hi, I've looked around and found how to use an xml drawable and use SetBackgroundDrawable in an android custom renderer. However, how do I change say a color of that xml within a PropertyChanged...
View ArticlePie Charts & Graphs
I need to create an app which contains some pie charts. I'd like to do this using Xamarin Forms. Does anyone have any suggestions for cross platform libraries that will handle this. Thanks
View ArticleMasterDetailPage (Android) adds back arrow to first page of a navigation stack
I can't help but get the feeling that I'm missing something here. I have a MasterDetailPage whose Master is a NavigationPage. On iOS this displays as expected - the first page has no "Back" button or...
View ArticleDraw chart in Xamarin.Forms
What is the best way to draw chart in Xamarin Forms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlestick_chart I think the best way to use: ScrollView, StackLayout and BoxView. What do you think?
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